Airborne radio-echo sounding (RES) measurements to investigate widespread enhanced flow in the interior of the East Antarctic icesheet, 2001
Airborne radio-echo sounding (RES) measurements of surface elevation, bed topography and ice thickness were made across the Bailey/Slessor region of East Antarctica. The primary objective of this research was to investigate the newly discov...>>

Analyses of snow and ice samples from the Moutonnee, Ablation and Citadel Lakes, Antarctica, 2001/2002
Snow and ice samples were taken from the Moutonnee, Ablation and Citadel Lakes. Isotopic analyses of Oxygen, Carbon and Deuterium were conducted on the samples.
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Analysis of fungal cultures, plant and soil samples collected from the northern Antarctic Peninsula region, 2002-2003
This study investigated the status of dark septate ("DS") fungi in Antarctic plant and soil communities, with the aim of determining the abundance of DS fungi in plant roots and rhizoids, their taxonomic affinities and their symbi...>>

Analysis of snow/ice cores collected from Rothschild, Latady and Smyley Islands, Antarctica, 2006
The project was concerned with understanding how air mass origin and meteorology affect the mass accumulation of snow in areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, and how the atmosphere's properties are preserved in the snow. Ground truth measurem...>>

Antarctic microclimate data
Automatic data loggers are often used to monitor environmental variables such as temperature (of air and soil), humidity, wind speed and radiation in microclimates where experimental or ecological studies are being carried out. Some loggers...>>

Antarctic snow accumulation map and data
The map is derived from a compilation of field measurements. Satellite observations from AMSR-E and AVHRR (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) instruments are used to guide the interpola...>>

Automatic Weather Station (AWS) data collected from Rothschild, Latady and Smyley Islands, Antarctica, 2005
The project was concerned with understanding how air mass origin and meteorology affect the mass accumulation of snow in areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, and how the atmosphere's properties are preserved in the snow. Three micro-power Aut...>>

BEDMAP ice-thickness database
Data describing the thickness of the Antarctic ice sheet collected on surveys undertaken over the past 50 years have been brought together into a single database. These data have allowed the compilation of a suite of seamless digital topogr...>>

Borehole sensor data collected as part of hot-water drilling on the Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica (2004-2006)
Approximatively 1MB of ice temperature data acquired during the RABID Project. Measured on a thermistor cable with 10 sensors located at depths between 15 m and 300 m below the surface. Collected between November 2004 and February 2006.
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Direct GPS measurements of the Weddell Sea ice shelves collected during the 2007-2008 field season
During the 2007/08 summer field season 15 GPS receivers, recording position observations every 15 seconds for 24 hours a day, were successfully deployed over the Larsen C and Filchner-Ronne ice shelves. Six of these stations were uplifted a...>>

Fungal cultures, plant and soil samples (live and frozen) collected from the northern Antarctic Peninsula region, 2002-2003
Three plant species, the leafy liverwort Cephaloziella varians and the angiosperms Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis, were sampled from 12 islands across a 1480 km latitudinal gradient from South Georgia through to Adelaide I...>>

Geodatabase of terrestrial and marine radiometric dates covering the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet (APIS)
More well-constrained dates are urgently required in order to reduce the complexity visible in radiocarbon dates on the continental shelf. The geodatabase provides many conflicting ages, and improving chronological control on ice sheet retr...>>

Geophysical data including multibeam bathymetry and sub-bottom profiler collected from the Weddell Sea and Marguerite Bay during February and March 2002
Ice-rafted (Heinrich) layers in the North Atlantic provide clear evidence that basins of large Quaternary ice sheets have, in the past, exhibited major dynamic instabilities. The presence of large ice sheets on the modern Antarctic continen...>>

Glacier flow vertical motion measurements, Antarctic Peninsula, 2005/07
Correction, Verification and Context, of Satellite-Derived Elevation Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula CVaCS-DECAP
The aim of the project was to measure the various factors that affect altitude of snow surfaces in Antarctica, in order ...>>

Global Positioning System (GPS) data collected as part of hot-water drilling on the Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica (2004-2006)
GPS positions from sensors monitoring ice flow during the RABID Project (Leica and Trimble receivers). Five stations on the ice stream, plus one on slow-moving adjacent ice sheet (Fletcher Promontory), and one on a nunatak (unofficial name ...>>

Ice core samples collected as part of hot-water drilling on the Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica (2004-2006)
Sections of ice core acquired from upper 100 m of the ice stream during the RABID Project. Retrieved using hot-water corer. Cores taken at selected depths in two adjacent holes. Core section length = up to 4 m. Number of core sections = 6. ...>>

Long-term monitoring of Signy Island lakes chemistry by BAS, 1963-2004
The long term monitoring of water chemistry in Signy Island lakes is unique in polar limnology, in its duration (30+ years), detail, and range of sites. It details seasonal patterns of snow and ice cover, inorganic nutrient status and chlor...>>

Major ions concentrations from monthly snow pit and surface sampling at Halley Station, Antarctica, 2004-2005
Measurements of the concentrations of major ions in snow samples, Halley Station, 2004-2005. Snow was collected using surface sampling and snow pits and analysed using ion chromatography. This work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector La...>>

Multibeam bathymetry and sub-bottom profiler data collected from the Bellingshausen Sea, 2004
Swath bathymetry data collected using a EM120 multibeam echo sounder and the TOPAS sub-bottom profiling system aboard the RRS James Clark Ross (JR104) in the Bellingshausen Sea, 2004.
This work was carried out as part of the first system...>>

Orographic flows and the climate of the Antarctic Peninsula (OFCAP) Project Description (AFI 10/04)
The Antarctic Peninsula is currently one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth. Large environmental changes have occurred as a result of this warming, most notably the retreat and rapid disintegration of some of the floating ice shel...>>

Rutford Ice Stream bed elevation DEM from radar data
We present a digital elevation model of the bed of Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica derived from radio-echo sounding data. The data cover an 18 x 40 km area immediately upstream of the grounding line of the ice stream. This area is of particu...>>

Sediment cores collected from the Bellingshausen Sea, 2004
Sediments cores collected aboard the RRS James Clark Ross (JR104) in the Bellingshausen Sea, 2004.
This work was carried out as part of the first systematic investigation of the former ice drainage basin in the southern Bellingshausen Se...>>

Sediment trap and delta data from the Moutonnee Lake, Antarctica, 2001/2002
Sediment trap and delta samples were taken from the Moutonnee Lake in 2001/2002. Samples were analysed for grain size, Carbon and Nitrogen content and isotopic Carbon content. Delta samples were also analysed for luminescence dating.
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Soil, rock and biological samples from the Moutonnee, Ablation and Citadel Lakes, Antarctica, 2001/2002
The general reference data consists of soil, rock and biological samples. These were analysed for grain size, CHN and carbon isotopes.
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South Orkney Fast-Ice Series (SOFI)
The South Orkney Fast-Ice series (SOFI) is an annual record of the timing of formation and breakout of fast-ice in a bay in the South Orkney Islands on the Scotia Arc in the northern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. ...>>

Temperature data from 20-m borehole, Subglacial Lake Ellsworth region, West Antarctica, 2007-2008
Measurement of temperature at the base of a 20-m deep borehole in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Resistance of two calibrated thermistors measured at the base of a 20 m deep borehole....>>

Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - ice sheet model runs, 2005-2008
The GLIMMER ice sheet model will be used to simulate former ice sheet configurations in the Weddell Sea embayment, constrained against our new field data.
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Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - powders, solutions and residues, 2006-2008
For each of the rock samples analysed in the lab, a (variable) number of laboratory stages are created, including sawing and crushing residues, pure quartz separates, chemical solutions, and AMS targets.
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Vibro and gravity sediment cores plus associated data collected from the Weddell Sea and Marguerite Bay during February and March 2002
Ice-rafted (Heinrich) layers in the North Atlantic provide clear evidence that basins of large Quaternary ice sheets have, in the past, exhibited major dynamic instabilities. The presence of large ice sheets on the modern Antarctic continen...>>